Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan plans to ask Cook County Circuit Court judges to send cases involving concealed carry rejections back to the state review board for another look, a spokeswoman for the attorney general said Monday.

The Illinois State Police recently announced new guidelines allowing those who were refused permits by the special review board to appeal, but they would not impact more than 200 applicants who had filed lawsuits seeking to have their cases reviewed.

The only way those applicants would be allowed to get a new review is if the judge sent them back to the board, the ISP said. The attorney general’s decision is a response to that.

“We’re going to be asking the courts to remand the cases back to the review board for more process as a result of the new emergency rules ISP announced last week,” said Madigan’s spokeswoman Natalie Bauer.

The previous system sparked more than 200 lawsuits from applicants who were not told why they were denied. The secret review process was detailed in a report by the Tribune. The lawsuits prompted the State Police to change the rules.

Applicants who were denied concealed carry permits by a special review board before Thursday, when the Illinois State Police changed the rules governing the board’s procedures, are not guaranteed to benefit from the new rules, a state police spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Citing a flood of lawsuits from applicants who were denied concealed carry permits because of objections from local law enforcement that were shrouded in secrecy, the Illinois State Police announced Monday that it will require a state review board to give more information about why applications...